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1 Tackling Regional Climate Change By Leaf Albedo Bio-geoengineering
Andy Ridgwell, Joy S. Singarayer, Alistair M. Hetherington, Paul J. Valdes  Current Biology  Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages (January 2009) DOI: /j.cub Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 World Cropland Area
Global distribution of croplands, transformed onto the HadCM3 global climate model land surface grid [4]. Only C3 (taken to represent crops such as rice, wheat, and soybeans) and C4 (e.g., maize, sorghum, sugarcane, and millet) grasses are allowed to grow in the model within areas designated as cropland (if vegetation is predicted to be present at all). Current Biology  , DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Climatic Impacts of Bio-geoengineering
Global anomalies of summer (JJA) and winter (DJF) surface air temperature resulting from a increase in maximum crop canopy albedo and an elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration of 700 ppm, calculated relative to the (700 ppm CO2) control experiment. Only differences that are statistically significant at a 99% confidence level, as given by a Student's t test, are plotted. The small “hotspots” of cooling or warming are mostly associated with localized changes in seasonal sea-ice extent or snow cover relative to the control, induced by the cropland albedo changes elsewhere. Current Biology  , DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Impacts of Bio-geoengineering on Soil Moisture
Global anomalies of mean annual soil moisture for the canopy-albedo experiment, calculated relative to the control and statistically significant at a 99% confidence level. Current Biology  , DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions


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